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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:44:28 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@f-secure.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.18pre25: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
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thunder7 wrote:
> for almost everything:
>Dec 10 13:33:47 middle kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
[....]
> <tried to log in over the network, didn't work, pressed C-A-D and
> watched fsck mull over 60+ Gb>

You could try out my patch that "reserves" virtual memory for root, so
you should be able to login/ssh and clean up if your "faulty" or
memory hungry daemons aren't run by root -- it works fine for me
and I didn't get negative feedback so far:
	http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/reserved_root_vm+oom_killer-5.diff
More on the patch,
	http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2000week48/0624.html

> Most messages I was able to dig up about this mentioned 2.2.17 and
> suggested upgrading to 2.2.18pre. I didn't think there is anything
> changed between 2.2.18pre25 and 2.2.18pre26(2.2.18 to be) in VM
> handling, so the problem still seems to persist. What are the
> suggestions? Moving to 2.4 is not possible, since the isdn
> compression module isdn_lzscomp.o won't work in 2.4.

Andrea Arcangeli's VM global patch got good feedback and according to
Alan Cox it's a potential candidate for 2.2.19,
ftp://ftp.nl.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/2.2.18pre18/VM-global-2.2.18pre18-7.bz2

Good luck,

	Szaka

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